This page will have information and links to help our study on living communities and waterways
1. Look at this link and draw a Venn Diagram showing what you might find in a healthy and unhealthy stream
2. Find the hyperlink on this page and list some plants that encourage bird life in wetlands
3. Follow this link to find more information about your chosen animal
4. By clicking on the wild animal link you can find information about insects, birds and other animals.
5. Try this link to National Geographic for more information about your chosen animal. There are some links to videos showing them in action. Complete a PMI about learning from a video compared to a book resource.
6. This link to National Geographic has information on creatures and their habitat. Use the classification links for your animal to answer the key questions you posed for your inquiry.
7. How are living things categorised? Use this link to write down the order of classification, then select an insect we might find in our waterways and give its full classification.
8. On this home page find the link for insects. Select one insect you might find in our backyard or waterways. Draw a sketch or the insect. Write down its full classification. Include two interesting facts you have learned.
9. Buzzle has lots of interesting facts about water insects.
Select one insect and complete a web on it.
10. Follow the invertebrate key on this link to find out more about flies. Write a half page report on flies. Include a diagram inserted into your report.
11. What is an insect? Look at the CSIRO site and make a mind map defining an insect.
Then 1. Draw your own insect checking that it meets your definition
12. Use this link to find out more about insects with aquatic larvae. select any one insect and draw a labelled diagram with labels highlighting key features. Use the glossary hyperlinks and include a glossary with your diagram.
13. Use the 'Bugwise' site to find out how you can contact a scientist with something interesting you have found out, or want to know more about.
14.Do you have a question about the living world and you need an expert to help you? Check with your teacher before you send the email.
15. Purely for entertainment! Only to be used as a reward for completing all your other work and when given permission by a kind teacher or parent. Try Fergus on Ice, among the other 'science' games.
16. How many of the insect in this North American site can be found in our streams? List the names you recognise. Select one insect and describe its adaptations to survive in a stream environment.
17.Use this New Zealand site developed by Landcare to construct a Venn Diagram showing the similarities and differences between a waterboatman and a backswimmer. Follow the hyperlink using the 'bug list taxonomic' if you can.
18. List the process for preparing insects so they can be preserved in a collection. Present in a flow diagram. Then find one other interesting part of this site to share with the class.
Select one insect and complete a web on it.
Then 1. Draw your own insect checking that it meets your definition